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  "description":"Method of playing sound on webpages (without requiring a plug-in). Includes support for the following media properties: `currentSrc`, `currentTime`, `paused`, `playbackRate`, `buffered`, `duration`, `played`, `seekable`, `ended`, `autoplay`, `loop`, `controls`, `volume` & `muted`",
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    {
      "url":"https://html5doctor.com/native-audio-in-the-browser/",
      "title":"HTML5 Doctor article"
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      "url":"https://dev.opera.com/articles/view/everything-you-need-to-know-about-html5-video-and-audio/",
      "title":"Detailed article on video/audio elements"
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      "url":"https://www.jplayer.org/latest/demos/",
      "title":"Demos of audio player that uses the audio element"
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      "url":"https://24ways.org/2010/the-state-of-html5-audio",
      "title":"Detailed article on support"
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    {
      "url":"http://textopia.org/androidsoundformats.html",
      "title":"File format test page"
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      "url":"https://raw.github.com/phiggins42/has.js/master/detect/audio.js#audio",
      "title":"has.js test"
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      "url":"https://www.webplatform.org/docs/html/elements/audio",
      "title":"WebPlatform Docs"
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      "url":"https://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audio",
      "title":"The State of HTML5 Audio"
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      "description":"Volume is read-only on iOS."
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      "description":"[iOS](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html) and [Chrome on Android](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178297) do not support autoplay as advised by the specification."
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